One Touch of Nature A Victorian Domestic Drama of Human Kinship, Family Reconciliation, and Sentimental Stage Comedy
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
28
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.3 cm
Gewicht
58 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-4035-3
One Touch of Nature takes its cue from Shakespeare's famous assertion that "one touch of nature makes the whole world kin," shaping a humane dramatic world in which instinctive sympathy contests social calculation. Webster's writing is theatrical in the best nineteenth-century sense: economical in construction, alert to gesture and timing, and balanced between sentiment, moral recognition, and comic relief. The work belongs to the Victorian stage tradition of domestic feeling, where private emotion becomes a test of public values. Benjamin Webster, actor, dramatist, and influential theatre manager, wrote from within the practical life of the stage rather than from literary abstraction. His long association with London theatres, especially the Haymarket and Adelphi, gave him an acute understanding of audience response, character effect, and performable dialogue. That experience likely shaped the book's emphasis on immediacy, emotional legibility, and the moral power of ordinary human feeling. Readers interested in Victorian drama, theatrical history, or the literature of sympathy will find One Touch of Nature a rewarding work. It is especially valuable for those who wish to see how popular theatre translated ethical feeling into vivid, accessible art.
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